Revell 1:72 Scale Focke Wulf 200-C

Bustedwing · Jan 11, 2018

SANCER said:
The progress with these engines is very good, Graham, looks very promising.

On the other hand, the number of years and modeling brands from the far away Egypt is very impressive. What a good memory!
It should also be clarified that in this forum there don´t exist, nor are there any elderly people, but, we have some "ancient boys", and others of us have the "accumulated youth" ...

Saludos cordiales, amigos, colegas y contemporáneos míos.

I just consider myself " slightly chronologically challenged"

Bustedwing · Jan 11, 2018

Airframes said:
Very nice work in this scale.
Ammo belts can be made fairly convincingly in this scale using thick foil, such as the lead foil found on wine bottles. Cut a strip the desired width, and lay it on a flat surface. Then, using a coin with a 'milled' edge, roll it along the strip, pressing firmly. This should leave the indentations from the 'milled' edge, looking good enough to represent the rounds in 1/72 scale, then paint as needed.

Brilliant idea ! I tried it out with a bunch of different coins, A US dollar works great !

Airframes · Jan 11, 2018

Good to know it worked. I've used the technique for 1/48th scale belts for the interior of B-17s, B-25s etc, and it looks good enough through the glazing.

Bustedwing · Jan 12, 2018

In the making it up as you go along category. The gondola or bathtub. I couldn't find any pictures of what's actually inside so I just kind of made up the interior. I also made new glazing for the front and rear. The ones in the kit were hideously thick, not very transparent and didn't fit worth a pinch. The bombs in the bomb bay are molded all in one piece as part of the floor and look kind of goofy but I used it any ways. Couldn't find enough bombs all the same size in my scrap bin to build my own, besides , when I take my readers off they don't look too goofy !

Airframes · Jan 13, 2018

Nicely done.

Gnomey · Jan 13, 2018

Good work so far!

fubar57 · Jan 17, 2018

Nice work

Tony Hill · Jan 18, 2018

Looking good!

Bustedwing · Jan 20, 2018

Ok so now some painting. I actually added a fair bit of white to tone down the RLM73 to give a bit more contrast between the two splinter colours. The Ar196 I did a while back there is hardly any difference between them at all. I also did a lot of shading with thinned out paint which worked quite well. The picture doesn't show it much but it seems to have worked fairly convincingly. The underside is RLM 65. Behold the hinkey bombs, I wish now I had decided to make some and build my own bomb bay, no turning back at this point. I ordered a set of after market decals so that's up next. Slowly clearing up some of the dinosaur kits so I can get at some of the newer kits from the Christmas score !

fubar57 · Jan 20, 2018

Airframes · Jan 20, 2018

It's looking good, and I see what you mean about the 'bombs' !
Maybe have a closed bomb bay ?

Wurger · Jan 20, 2018

Crimea_River · Jan 21, 2018

If I recall, the bomb doors don't fit very well so closing the bay up might be entertaining.

Airframes · Jan 21, 2018

Out with the grinder, and off with their heads !

javlin · Jan 21, 2018

Airframes said:
It's looking good, and I see what you mean about the 'bombs' !
Maybe have a closed bomb bay ?

That is looking really Nice and to the bomb bay unless someone reaches in the cabinet they will never know

Gnomey · Jan 22, 2018

Looks good so far!

SANCER · Jan 25, 2018

You did a good job painting with the two upper colors and the lower part. Regarding the bombs bay, I agree with Kevin and if with closeing the doors it looks better, the best decision will be yours.
I will continue pending to the advances that you have us.

Saludos compadre
Luis Carlos

Bustedwing · Feb 1, 2018

Well I'm signing off on this one finally. I wish I had paid more attention to the bomb load.I thought about cutting off the goofy looking bombs and adding a torpedo but after searching found they never carried torpedoes. I saw a few pictures with two bombs in the bay but no info on what type. From what I could find typical was a load of 12 Sc50 bombs. The kit only shows 10 bombs. I didn't feel like making 12 little bombs so I just left it as it is. At any rate I have a Condor for my WW2 Luftwaffe collection and pretty pleased with how it turned out for such a meager kit.

Airframes · Feb 1, 2018

Turned out very nice indeed - well done.

Wurger · Feb 1, 2018

I agree with Terry. Well done.

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